OUTLOOK - Students and staff from Outlook Elementary School thanked firefighters and Red Cross members yesterday (Tuesday) with refreshments and a walk-through of the newly renovated fourth and fifth grade wing.

Unable to field a full team at the CWAC league opener at Black Rock Creek yesterday, the Grandview High School boys golf team finds itself in the cellar of the conference standings to start the 2007 spring campaign.

YAKIMA - Bickleton's Eric Hess earned second and third place honors in the discus and shotput, respectively, at Riverside Christian's Papa Wells Invite in Yakima this past Saturday, throwing three feet past his personal best in the shotput.

A dazzling pitching performance by Tori Van Wingerden in the opener and a five-hit performance at the plate by Brittany den Hoed in the nightcap propelled the Sunnyside Christian High School girls fastpitch softball team to a pair of wins over visiting Lyle last Friday.

After a second bond measure recently failed that would have provided money to replace the outdated bleachers at Clem Senn Field, the Sunnyside School Board decided last night to tear down the unsafe bleachers immediately.

Control your pets

KENNEWICK - The Sunnyside High School boys golf team may have finished dead last at yesterday's seven-school league opener, but based on how the Grizzly linksters are improving, it shouldn't be long before they're out of the cellar.

GRANDVIEW - A young Grandview baseball team played a very tough East Valley team tough last night but allowed too many errors and walks as the Red Devils pulled away in the fourth inning for an 8-2 win.

'This is the day'

Cheryl Best of Vancouver, Wa. has had success in a career that included ballet dancing, but on Monday she shared with the Lower Valley Christian Women's Club the second chances that have meant even more.

Tuesday, March 20

JAMES CANTRELL

GRANDVIEW - The city of Grandview will move forward with several different steps to make the community aware of current projects and events. This comes on the heels of a study session held during the regular meeting last night (Monday).

Sunnyside's Laken Top was named to the 2007 All-Washington Academic Team recently and will be formally honored this Thursday, March 22, in Olympia when Gov. Gregoire will award each student selected a commemorative medallion.

TOPPENISH - During their first event of the season, Grandview High School track team members scored an impressive third place finish for the girls and a fourth place showing for the boys this past Saturday, March 17, at the Toppenish Rotary Invitational.

OBITUARY

OBITUARY

GRANDVIEW - A Grandview leadership team comprised of city and school staff, as well as proactive community members met last night (Thursday) to come up with action plans to address seven key issues identified at a previous meeting.

Knowing full well she has the power to make a difference, Outlook's Jordie Ricigliano will host a Dogs, Desserts and Donations Day at The Sunny Spot Car Wash and Pet Service in Sunnyside this Sunday, March 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunnyside High School's Key Club has spent so much time and effort raising money and garnering support for others that they overlooked something: the fact that they need funds for their annual convention.

Global warming cry a scare tactic

MABTON - The Mabton City Council Tuesday night moved to adopt the findings of fact and the requested zoning designations from the Yakima Valley Conference of Governments (YVCOG) to annex 195 acres into the city. The council made the motion after hearing from approximately 15 people at a public hearing on the proposed annexation.

This past Saturday night was an evening of celebration and festivities at the annual Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet and Auction held at Navarro's Community Center. The theme of this year's banquet was "Stars of the Community."

At approximately 8 a.m. this morning, March 12, the Sunnyside Police Department and Sunnyside Fire Department were dispatched to the scene of a two-vehicle automobile accident at Yakima Valley Highway and Factory Road.

Doc hadn't even finished loading his coffee with fake sugar before Steve piped up. "I think it's disgusting and weird and unnatural and it should be outlawed!" the tall cowboy said, coming to rest at the philosophy counter of the Mule Barn truck stop.

Sunnyside Schools Superintendent Dr. Rick Cole would like the Yakima Skills Center Sunnyside satellite facility, that is planned to be built sometime between 2009 and 2011, up and operational a couple of years ahead of time.

As many as two-thirds of registered voter's mail-in ballots are already in the mail with their choice of whether or not to support the current $1.95 million bond to maintain and upgrade school facilities in dire need of repair.

What with Sunnyside being the agriculturally diverse community that it is, Sunnyside High School student Elvira Chiprez decided that for her science fair project, she'd determine how natural product residues affect aquatic organisms. That curiosity, combined with careful, scientific processes, earned her the grand prize in Sunnyside High School's science fair, held this past Monday.

TANZANIA - Three regions of Tanzania, Africa were recently visited by Sunnyside High School senior Dianna Mendoza, who was on an educational journey to see how the various tribes are being assisted by Lutheran World Relief projects.

MARCIA ADELLE SIMPSON

Monday, March 5

YAKIMA - Mabton Coach Brock Ledgerwood and his team of Vikings looked relaxed and ready to have fun this past Saturday before the start of the fifth/eighth place game at the 1A State tournament in Yakima.

GRANDVIEW - A group of 17 missionaries trekked to Thailand in early February with one goal in mind: build a house for a director of a children's home. And, as is the case with all missions, of course more came out of it.

It's pretty much a given that if you hand me a cookbook that features only 30-minute recipes, I'm going to be delighted. When thumbing through Best of Country 30 Minute Recipes, it's a bonus that the list of ingredients on many of the recipes is quite small.